The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-28

counsel of the Chicago Anarchists could
open the case, Justice Harlan said he had
decided to have it come before the Supreme
Court in open session, and as the matter
was extremely important and urgent, it
could come before the full beEch at any
moment. Later the case was brought be-
fore the full court.
THE EAST.
HEAVY fires are reported in the timber
along the northern ridge of the Blue mount
aims in Pennsylvania
A MAGNIFICENT bronze equestrian statue
of General Meade has been unveiled in
Paramount Park, Philadelphia.
The schooner Herman Babson has ar
rived at Gloucester, Mass, from the Grand
Banks. Captain Lawson reports that on
September 80 he fell in with the French
fishing sloop st. Pierre waterlogged. He
boarded her and found ten men drowned in
the cabin.
PASTOR MILLEN, Methodist, and Pastor
Decker, Congregationalist, both of Brook
lyn, N. Y, have been suspended for i'm
morality.
The fast train west on the Pennsylvania
railroad, at Steel's crossing, near Ronk's
Station, Pa, recently, struck q team con-
tanning Mrs. Jacob Steltzfus and Mrs. Bar
bara Steltzfus, middle-aged ladies. Both
were instantly killed, as was also the horse.
THE coal miners OF the Monongahela and
Youghiogheny valleys, Pennsylvania, have
asked for an advance in wages. 1t will be
submitted to arbitrator.
THE Park Mount Manufacturing Com
pany's cotton and wooden mill at Lenni,
Pa, was destroyed by fire the other day.
Loss, $4,000.
The fishing schooner E. II. Horton ar
lived at Provincetown, Mass, recently,
with Captain Atwood and two men and
Joy, the crew Of the lobster sloop Pennsyl-
vania, of Plymouth. The Pennsylvania
when OF Harding ledge suddenly sprang
leak and sank IN five minutes.
The fishing schooner Rebecca Nickerson,
of Provincetown, Mass, has not been heard
from since the great gale Of September 8.
Her crew numbered nineteen.
The American Gaslight Associations an
nual convention began in New York on the
18th with 200 gas manufacturers in attend
ance.
BIZ decision rendered by q master In
chancery in Pittsburgh, Pa, recently, the
Vanderbilts have secured full control of the
Pittsburgh Il Lake Erie road once more.
SUIT has been instituted against Jay
Gould and Russell Sage by the representa-
tives of the holders of consolidated bonds
Of the Kansas Pacific railway for breach of
trust and fraud. The suit grew out of the
revelations recently made before the Pa
cific Investigating Commission.
NATURAL gas exploded at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 18th, demolishing the Hotel Al
bemarle and the Bijou Theater. Eight
persons were seriously injured, two IA
tally.
Governor SAWYER, of New Hampshire,
has vetoed the Hazeu, Boston & Maine
Railroad bill. The Governor says that,
without entering upon the intrinsic merits
of the measure, he is moved to object to the
bill for the reason that corrupt methods
have been extensively used for the purpose
Of promoting its passage.
WILLIAM WALKER, importer of dress
trimmings, New York City, has made an
assignment with Sl25, 900 liabilities and
slO0,0O0 assets.
ASSISTANT GENERAL TICKET AGENT o. II.
McCARrY, Of the Union Pacific railway, has
been appointed superintendent of the rate
department of tho Eastern Trunk Line Pas
senger Association.
A PACKAGE exploded in the Adams Ex-
press Company's Office on Court street,
Boston, recently, slightly injuring Henry
7. Sawyer, q warehouseman, and breaking
the package was left, and who sent 1t was
unknown.
PREMIER NoRQuAY, of Manitoba, now in
New York. has closed contract for the
sale Of 1000 in Provincial bonds for the
Red River Valley railway.
GEORGE W. ATHERToN, Of Pennsylvania,
has been elected president, and Charles E.
Thorne, Of Ohio secretary OF the National
Agricultural College Association.
FAHnBKmuHYR, the New York priest in
5ure1 b IT, eo1fapse of the school house in
thu ~, Old on the 18th.
kWo0DHAx TRUE & Co., jobbers in dry
s0Dcds, Portland, Me-, have made an as
si9D0snk The liabilities are stated al
aoout 80, 000 The stock of goods on hand
= valBed at about sl25, Goo The remainder
a tie assets can not be estimated.
THE convention Of the American Ship
ing and Industrial League met at Boston
on the 2lst. Hon. v. R. Spofford, of Massa-
chusetts, was chosen president. Senator
Frye, Of Maine, favored using the surplus
for merchant ships to be built and run
under the American flag.
The tugboat Hawley was sunk in North
river, New York, the other evening by
ferryboat. The crew was rescued. panic
ensued on the ferryboat but only one man
TIE boiler OF portable sawmill at West
Brownsville, Pa, exploded recently with
terrific force. Two brothers, John and Viii
liam Kelley, were instantly killed and Q
man named Adrien was missing The mills
were total wreck.
BARTLRY CAMPBELL, the playwright. now
in New York insane asylum, is reported
rapidly recovering his reason.
The Western Pennsylvania coal mine
owners Lave decided not to give their men
an advance in wages, rs conditionally
agreed upon last May. A strike was likely.
IN y conference Of committees represent
ing Tammany Hall and the County Democ-
racy at New York, q union ticket was
agreed on, the Offices being divided between
the two organizations.
Sur has been begun in the United States
Court at New York in behalf Of the United
States against the trustees of Trinity
Caurch for importing under contract to
preach, Rev. E. Walpole Warren, the Eng
6sh clergyman.